Crowdfunding Panel
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Agenda:
6:00 pm – 6:15 pm EST: Event Intro
6:15 pm – 7:30 pm EST: Panel + Q&A
7:30 pm – 8:00 pm EST: Networking
Panelists:
Ajay Bam, Co-Founder and CEO of Vyrill
Ajay is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, educator and innovator with 15+ years of experience with building startups with successful exits like Modiv Media and launching products with world class brands like Nokia, Lehman Brothers in areas of e-commerce, digital payments and mobile marketing. He has built and led products teams, has strong cross-functional and international product development experience in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Solid track record of launching new products in new/emerging markets, product innovation (issued patents), strategy and revenue growth. He was also a lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Haas school of business at U.C.Berkeley. Ajay frequently mentors startup founders and sits on the advisory board of startups. Ajay speaks German, French, and Hindi.
Ajay is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Vyrill.com, a U.C.Berkeley Skydeck founded startup. Vyrill is a google for commerce video (e.g. reviews) and Vyrill can google inside the video to enable insights and video commerce. Vyrill helps brand marketers increase revenue and find new customers by leveraging commerce video such as video reviews, feedback, unboxing, how to videos etc. for insights, demand-generation, licensing and content marketing. Vyrill converts consumer video data and habits into revenue. Vyrill is developing the industry’s first online video review system for commerce. Wefunder campaign at https://www.wefunder.com/Vyrill
Elizabeth Eichhorn, Startup Coach at IFundWomen
Elizabeth is a startup coach for IFundWomen and is on a mission to help female entrepreneurs achieve success for their business. She has a background in leadership development, community building, and crowdfunding. Her work has taken her around the country to help engage communities (large and small) to combat loneliness and help spread the importance of human capital.
She is a two time female founder who has successfully raised capital through crowdfunding to get her business off the ground and wishes that IFundWomen were around when she began that business. After taking her companies to completion, she is able to use her expertise in business development to encourage female entrepreneurs to reach their full potential through IFundWomen!
Josh Simons, CEO & Co-founder of Vampr
Josh is the CEO and co-founder of Vampr, the world’s largest and most active social-professional network for musicians (often dubbed the “LinkedIn for creatives”). With over half a million users, and active in every country on the planet, the music startup has helped fledgling musicians broker over 5 million connections worldwide. Vampr offers a free solution for young musicians, built by a sympathetic founding team of established musicians with Josh’s co-founder, Baz Palmer, best known as the lead guitarist for seminal hall-of-fame rock band, Hunters & Collectors.
Simons has grown Vampr into a multi-award winning platform, including a most prestigious nod from Apple with an inclusion in their Best of the Year list.
Prior to running Vampr, Josh Simons spent the better part of a decade as a successful artist, songwriter & producer. His artist project Buchanan enjoyed multi-million streams & chart impressions worldwide. They retired from the live circuit following a sold-out arena tour opening for Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood. As a producer and songwriter, Simons has shared credits with Travis Scott, Troye Sivan and Kanye West to name a few.
In April 2020 Simons was named in The Music Network’s 30 Under 30 List in addition to being voted Reader’s Choice. Simons holds a Bachelor of Business from Swinburne University.
Lance Williams, Co-founder at Makers Academy
Lance's first kickstarter project was in January of 2013. Since then he has launched 9 of his own projects raising over $2.2 million. He has now consulted 100+ project and has even written a course "How we raised millions crowdfunding". He's still launching at least 1 project on kickstarter/Indiegogo every year.
Philip Michael, CEO of NYCE
Philip Michael is an entrepreneur, investor and bestselling author. As CEO of fintech NYCE, Philip has over $500 million in active real estate developments. In addition, NYCE’s Reg. CF offering was the fastest to sell $1 million for real estate.
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